Google Software Engineer Internship interview questions
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Software Engineer Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Internship roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Google overall takes an average of 43 days.
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Just did the online assessment and it wasn't too bad at all. It's very manageable, just you know your data structures and algorithm, practice leet code and you'll be fine.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2020
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The interviewers were based in america even though I was in Canada and applied to a position in Canada. This was not discussed with the interviewers as they they didn't know they had to call me to my cell and not online so it was a bit late.Their english was not the best and they had heavy accent but overall patient and kind and help you if you are nervous.
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Questions covered topics mentioned in the handbook that was given before teh interview
I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Oct 2020
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The first part is an online assessment, if you do well, the next step is two back to back 1 hour coding interviews. If the feedback is positive, they will begin trying to match you with a project based on a survey that is given to you.
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Given a string of digits, return all possible IP addresses that can be generated.